Let’s start this article with a quick question to understand your understanding of strings. 💬 Question: Can the string objects be modified in Python? What do you think? Well, the fact is String objects are immutable. They cannot be modified. Consider the below example : Output: Now you might say, replacement operations and insertion operations … Read more
Problem Formulation and Solution Overview In this article, you’ll learn how to remove the newline character from list elements in Python. To make it more fun, we have the following running scenario: Watts Security has contacted you for assistance. They have been given a flat file containing user account breaches. Upon review, they notice each … Read more
Summary: Use the len(str) method to check whether the string is empty or not. If the len method returns 0 it implies that the string is empty. Otherwise it is not empty. Problem Statement: Given a string how to check if it is empty. Note: An empty string is a string that does not contain … Read more
This article shows you how to apply a given function to each element of a tuple. The best way to apply a function to each element of a tuple is the Python built-in map(function, iterable) function that takes a function and an iterable as arguments and applies the function to each iterable element. An alternate … Read more
Problem Formulation Given a string, a substring, and a replacement string in Python. String s Substring sub Replacement string repl How to find and replace the last occurrence of sub with the replacement repl in the Python string s? Let’s have a look at a couple of examples to thoroughly understand the problem: Example 1: … Read more
Problem Formulation Given a string and a substring in Python. How to find the index of the last occurrence of the substring in Python? Let’s have a look at a couple of examples to thoroughly understand the problem: Example 1: string = ‘fifi’ substring = ‘fi’ result: 2 Example 2: string = ‘hello’ substring = … Read more
Use str.rstrip() to remove a trailing newline. Given a string s, create a new one without trailing newline character by calling s.rstrip(‘\n’). If you need the string stored in the original variable, simply assign the result to the original variable. Here’s an example: This actually removes all trailing newline characters: If you want to remove … Read more
Resumen: Para extraer números de una cadena determinada en Python puedes usar uno de los siguientes métodos: Utiliza el módulo regex . Utiliza las funciones split() y append() en una lista. Utiliza una comprensión de lista con las funciones isdigit() y split(). Utiliza el módulo num_from_string. Extraer dígitos o números de una cadena dada puede … Read more
Problem Formulation Using Python, we frequently need to deal with different kinds of numbers. We need to ask ourselves how to specify the number of decimal places in Python. By default, any number that includes a decimal point is considered a floating-point number. These binary floating-point numbers are hardware-based and lose accuracy after about 15 … Read more
Python’s __reversed__ magic method implements the reversed() built-in function that returns a reverse iterator over the values of the given sequence such as a list, a tuple, or a string. Syntax __reversed__(self) Let’s have a look at an example next. Example In the following code, you create a Person class with one name attribute. The … Read more
Syntax object.__repr__(self) The Python __repr__ method returns a string representation of the object on which it is called. It implements the built-in repr() function. If you call print(x) an object x, Python internally calls x.__str__() to determine the string representation of object x. If this isn’t implemented, Python calls x.__repr__(). We call this a “Dunder … Read more
Question Recap the following regular expression concepts (more details in the article below): The dot character . in regular expressions matches any character excluding the newline character. For example, the pattern ‘c.t’ will match the strings ‘cat’, ‘cut’, or ‘czt’. The character class [ ] is a set of characters: if you use it in … Read more